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Fiverr CEO reveals 8 jobs AI may kill off

Including his own

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Eddie Yoon
May 06, 2025 • Read time: 6 minutes

👋 Good morning/evening (wherever you are). It’s Tuesday.

Fiverr’s CEO, Micha Kaufman, tweeted this on April 8, but it’s making the rounds again. Apparently, he first shared it with his team.

He listed these eight jobs/industries:

  • Programmer

  • Designer

  • Product Manager

  • Data Scientist

  • Lawyer

  • Customer Support

  • Sales

  • Finance

He even acknowledged it could impact his own job too.

Of course, he could be wrong. But what if he’s right…like many others are also predicting?

What can we do?

Kaufman’s advice:

  • Study, research, and master the latest AI solutions in your field. Try multiple solutions and figure out what gives you super-powers. By superpowers, I mean the ability to generate more outcomes per unit of time with better quality per delivery. Programmers: code (Cursor...). Customer support: tickets (Intercom, Fin, SentiSum...), Lawyers: contracts (Lexis+ AI, Legora...), etc.

  • Find the most knowledgeable people on our team who can help you become more familiar with the latest and greatest in AI.

  • Time is the most valuable asset we have—if you’re working like it’s 2024, you’re doing it wrong! You are expected and needed to do more, faster, and more efficiently now.

  • Become a prompt engineer. Google is dead. LLM and GenAI are the new basics, and if you’re not using them as experts, your value will decrease before you know what hit you.

  • Get involved in making the organization more efficient using AI tools and technologies. It does not make sense to hire more people before we learn how to do more with what we have.

  • Understand the company strategy well and contribute to helping it achieve its goals. Don’t wait to be invited to a meeting where we ask each participant for ideas – there will be no such meeting. Instead, pitch your ideas proactively.

  • Stop waiting for the world or your place of work to hand you opportunities to learn and grow—create those opportunities yourself. I vow to help anyone who wants to help themselves.

Here’s the original source:

Switching it up.

1 Gorilla vs. 100 Men. Who wins?

Watch this AI video to find out. It’s an impressive video. I posted it on LinkedIn.

OK let’s keep going ↓

Here’s what you should know:

The numbers:

  • IBM has a $6B and growing generative AI business, according to its CEO.

  • OpenAI is acquiring AI coding tool Windsurf for about $3B.

  • ServiceNow expects its flagship AI product to reach $1B in annual contracted revenue by next year.

  • Quantum Systems secured €160M to lead global aerial intelligence.

  • Parloa, an agentic AI startup, raised $120M Series C at a $1B valuation.

  • Recraft, an AI design platform for brand-consistent visuals, raised $30M Series B led by Accel.

  • Relevance raised $24M to help businesses build AI agents for specific use cases.

Thought starters:

Meme of the day:

Thanks for reading,

Eddie

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